Regional inequality that developed in Russia at the end of the 90s has practically not changed for 20 years, said Natalya Zubarevich, professor at Moscow State University, director of the regional program of the Independent Institute for Social Policy.
“From 1999 to 2018, there were no major changes in the ratio of subjects in terms of the level of per capita gross regional product in Russia. At the top sits the great three leaders: Moscow, the Tyumen region with autonomous okrugs and Sakhalin, which has jumped up. Following them, among the relatively developed regions, there are a dozen with a small number of entities that have special competitive advantages: resources or semi-finished products, that is, oil, gas or metallurgy, ”Zubarevich said. According to her, thanks to these advantages, the regions are exporting to the global economy and, as a result, maintain a higher per capita GRP.
“The problem for Russia is where it is in the middle. And in the middle, we have two-thirds of the subjects without clear competitive advantages. There is also a powerful outsider group in Russia: a little more than a dozen regions, including underdeveloped republics and some particularly depressed regions, ”Zubarevich said.
According to her, such an alignment of forces, rebuilt by the end of the 90s, changes little in Russia.
Source: Rosbalt
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